Special Issue on Medical Education and Health Education
Medical education is education related to the practice of being a medical
practitioner, or healthcare related providers either the initial training to
become a physician, additional training thereafter, or Physician Assistant education.Medical
education and training varies considerably across the world. Various teaching
methodologies have been utilised in medical education, which is an active area
of educational research.
Basically, medical
education can be divided into four kinds or levels,namely entry-level
education, postgraduate education, continuing medical education and online
learning. There has been a proliferation of programmes that combine medical
training with research or management programmes, although this has been
criticised because extended interruption to clinical study has been shown to
have a detrimental effect on ultimate clinical knowledge. On the other hands,
Education theory itself is increasingly becoming an integral part of
postgraduate medical training. Formal qualifications in education are becoming
the norm for Medical School educators, who are becoming increasingly
accountable for their students.
Health education is the profession of educating people
about health.Areas within this profession encompass environmental health,
physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and
spiritual health. It can be defined as the principle by which individuals and
groups of people learn to behave in a manner conducive to the promotion,
maintenance, or restoration of health.
Health education is
also an effective tool that helps improve health in developing nations. It not
only teaches prevention and basic health knowledge but also conditions ideas
that re-shape everyday habits of people with unhealthy lifestyles in developing
countries. This type of conditioning not only affects the immediate recipients
of such education but also future generations will benefit from an improved and
properly cultivated ideas about health that will eventually be ingrained with
widely spread health education. Moreover, besides physical health prevention,
health education can also provide more aid and help people deal healthier with
situations of extreme stress, anxiety, depression or other emotional
disturbances to lessen the impact of these sorts of mental and emotional
constituents, which can consequently lead to detrimental physical effects.
In this special issue,
we intend to invite front-line researchers and authors to submit original
research and review articles on exploring Medical Education
and Health Education.
Authors should read
over the journal’s Author’s Guidelines carefully before
submission, Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their
complete manuscript through the journal Paper Submission System.
Please kindly notice that the “Special Issue’’ under your
manuscript title is supposed to be specified and the research field “Special Issue — Medical Education
and Health Education” should be
chosen during your submission.
According to the
following timetable:
Manuscript Due
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April
25th, 2013
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Publication Date
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July, 2013
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Special
Issue Editor
Guest Editor:
Prof. Edmund A. Marek; University of Oklahoma, USA
For
further questions or inquiries
Please
contact Editorial Assistant at
ce@scirp.org